tas

English

Noun

tas (plural tasses)

1. Alternative spelling of tass

Anagrams

• -ast, AST, ATS, ATs, S. A. T., S.A.T., SAT, STA, Sat, Sat., Sta, Sta., TSA, as't, ast, at's, ats, sat, sat., sta

Azerbaijani

Etymology 1

From Arabic طَاس (ṭās), ultimately from Middle Persian tšt'. Doublet of teşt.

Noun

tas (definite accusative tası, plural taslar)

1. a small tub or bason
2. basin (a wide bowl for washing, sometimes affixed to a wall)

Derived terms

• tasa düşmək

Etymology 2

From Persian طاس (tâs), from Middle Persian tʾs (tās, “die, dice”).

Noun

tas (definite accusative tası, plural taslar)

1. (backgammon) match (a series of games, played until one player reaches three points, for example by winning three single games (oyuns), or a single game and a gammon (mars).)

Declension

Chono

Numeral

tas

1. three

   Dios Sap, Dios Cot, Dios Espiritu Santo, tas persona, cayca Dios üeñec. (18th century catechism)

   Dios Padre, Dios Hijo, Dios Espíritu Santo. Tres personas, pero un solo Dios nomás. (translation by Bausami, 1975)

   God the Father, God the Son, God the Holy Spirit. Three persons but only one God.

Cornish

Etymology

From Proto-Brythonic *tad, from Proto-Celtic *tatos.

Pronunciation

• (Revived Middle Cornish) IPA^(key):
• (Revived Late Cornish) IPA^(key):

Noun

tas m (plural tasow)

1. father

Synonyms

• sira

Derived terms

• tas-gwynn/tas-gwydn

Mutation

Czech

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):

Verb

tas

1. second-person singular imperative of tasit

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɑs/

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• Hyphenation: tas
• Rhymes: -ɑs

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch tassche, tasche, from Old Dutch *taska, from Frankish and Proto-West Germanic *taska, from Proto-Germanic *taskǭ. Compare Old High German tasca (modern German Tasche), Middle Low German taske, English tasse.

Noun

tas f (plural tassen, diminutive tasje n)

1. bag

   Synonym: zak

Alternative forms

• tasch (obsolete)

Derived terms

Related terms

• tassen

Descendants

• Jersey Dutch: tās, tos
• → Aukan: tasi
• → Caribbean Hindustani: tás
• → Kari'na: tasy
• → Indonesian: tas
  • → Ternate: tas

Etymology 2

From French tasse, from Arabic طَاس (ṭās) (a shortening of طَسْت (ṭast)), from Middle Persian tšt' (tašt).

Noun

tas f (plural tassen, diminutive tasje n)

1. (Belgium) cup (like a cup of coffee or tea)

Synonyms

• (cup): kop, kopje, mok, jat

Etymology 3

From Middle Dutch tas, tasse, from Old Dutch *tas, *tasso, compare Old English tas and English tass (from Frankish), from Proto-Germanic *tassaz (“pile, heap”), Proto-Indo-European *dāy- (“to divide, split, section, part, separate”).

Noun

tas m

1. (dialectal) heap

Anagrams

• sta

French

Etymology

Inherited from Middle French , from Old French tas (“heap, mass”), from Frankish *tas (“mass”), from Proto-Germanic *tassaz (“heap, mow”), from Proto-Indo-European *dāy- (“to divide, split, section, part, separate”).

Akin to Middle Dutch tas, tasse (“heap, pile”) (Dutch tas), Middle Low German tas (“heap, stack of wheat or other grain, mow”), Old English tas (“heap, mow of corn or hay”). Compare also Scottish Gaelic dais (“heap”), Scots dass, Welsh dâs.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ta/, /tɑ/

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Noun

tas m (plural tas)

1. heap, pile
   • 1964, “Sacré Charlemagne”, Robert Gall (lyrics), Georges Liferman (music)‎:

     Il faut apprendre à compter et faire des tas de dictées.

     One has to learn to calculate and do heaps of dictations.

2. (colloquial, dialectal) thing

Derived terms

Related terms

• tasser

Further reading

• “tas”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé , 2012.

Anagrams

• STA

Haitian Creole

Etymology

From French tasse (“cup”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tas/

Noun

tas

1. cup

Indonesian

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Etymology

From Dutch tas, from Middle Dutch tassche, tasche, from Old Dutch, from Proto-Germanic *taskǭ. Compare Old High German tasca (modern German Tasche), Middle Low German taske, English tasse.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtas/
• Hyphenation: tas

Noun

tas (first-person possessive tasku, second-person possessive tasmu, third-person possessive tasnya)

1. bag.

Related terms

Descendants

• → Ternate: tas

Further reading

• “tas” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.

Latvian

Etymology

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *tas, from Proto-Indo-European *to- (“that”), part of the paradigm of *só, *séh₂, *tód (“this, that”).

Cognates include Lithuanian tàs, Old Prussian stas (< *sa + *tas), Sudovian tas, Old Church Slavonic тъ (tŭ), Ukrainian and Russian тот (tot), Bulgarian тъй (tǎj), Czech and Polish ten, Sanskrit तद् (tad), Ancient Greek τό (tó), Latin iste (< *is-te, with te from *to-).

Pronunciation

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Pronoun

tas (demonstrative, distal) (proximal: šis)

1. (used as a determiner) that

   kur ir tas zirgs? ― where is that horse?

   kur ir tā vista? ― where is that chicken?

   kur ir tas vecais koks? ― where is that old tree?

   to dienu es ļoti labi atceros ― that day I remember very well

   tai vietā mēs esam jau bijuši ― to that place we have already been

   ko tu lasi tajās jaunajās grāmatās? ― what are you reading in those new books?

2. (used as a pronoun) that, that one

   tas ir zirgs ― that is a horse

   tā ir vista ― that is a chicken

   tas ir mans tēvs ― that (one) is my father

   tā ir mana māte ― that (one) is my mother

   tie ir mani bērni ― those (ones) are my children

   tās ir manas meitas ― those (ones) are my daughters

Declension

Related terms

• tā
• tāds

References

Lithuanian

Etymology

From Proto-Balto-Slavic *tas.

Pronoun

tas m (plural: tie)

1. (used as a determiner) that

   kur̃ yrà tàs arklỹs? ― where is that horse?

   kur̃ yrà tà vištà? ― where is that chicken?

   tą̃ diẽną àš prisìmenu labaĩ geraĩ ― that day I remember very well

   tojè viẽtoje mẽs jaũ bùvome ― that place we have already been

   ką̃ tù skaitaĩ tosè naujosè knỹgose? ― what are you reading in those new books?

Declension

Livonian

Etymology

Likely borrowed from Latvian tase. Ultimately from French tasse.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tɑs/

Noun

tas

1. cup, teacup
2. a serving of tea or coffee

Usage notes

Likely to be used with daintier styles of dishware, heavier cups or mugs are likely to be called krūz.

Declension

See also

• alīztas
• allitas
• kaffetas

Maranao

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *atas.

Noun

tas

1. height

Norwegian Bokmål

Verb

tas

1. passive of ta

Phalura

Etymology

From Sanskrit त (ta, “base of nom.sg.n., all obl.sg and all pl. forms of pron. and pronom. adj”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /tas/

Pronoun

tas (demonstrative, Perso-Arabic spelling تس)

1. him
2. her
3. it (rem acc)

Alternative forms

• tes (Biori)

References

• Liljegren, Henrik, Haider, Naseem (2011) Palula Vocabulary (FLI Language and Culture Series; 7)‎, Islamabad, Pakistan: Forum for Language Initiatives, →ISBN
• Turner, Ralph Lilley (1969–1985) “tas”, in A Comparative Dictionary of the Indo-Aryan Languages, London: Oxford University Press

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish طاس (tas) (whence Turkish tas), from Arabic طَاس (ṭās, “bowl, cup”), from Middle Persian tšt' (tašt). Doublet of tàcna.

Noun

tȁs m (Cyrillic spelling та̏с)

1. cymbal
2. the plate part of a traditional balance or scale
3. (Eastern Orthodoxy) collection plate

Declension

This entry needs an inflection-table template.

See also

• cìmbal
• cimbalo

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from French tas.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtas/
• Rhymes: -as
• Syllabification: tas

Noun

tas m (plural tases or tas)

1. small anvil

Further reading

• “tas”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

Swedish

Verb

tas

1. passive infinitive of ta
2. present passive of ta

Anagrams

• -ast

Tagalog

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈtas/,

Adverb

tas (Baybayin spelling ᜆᜐ᜔)

1. (informal) Contraction of tapos.

Tausug

Etymology

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *atas.

Noun

tās

1. height

Ternate

Etymology

From Indonesian tas, from Dutch tas, from Middle Dutch tasche, from Proto-Germanic *taskǭ.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key):

Noun

tas

1. a bag

References

Turkish

Etymology

From Ottoman Turkish طاس (tas), which borrowed this from Arabic طَاس (ṭās, “bowl”) (a shortening of طَسْت (ṭast)), from Middle Persian tšt' (tašt), ultimately from the past participle of Proto-Iranian *taš- (“to make, construct; to cut”), from Proto-Indo-European *tetḱ-. Cognate with French tasse.

Noun

tas (definite accusative tası, plural taslar)

1. a bowl, typically made of metal.
   • 2005, Saffet Ulusoy, Aklımda kalanlar, page 66:

     Meğer bu tas ve içindeki su, yemek yedikten sonra içine ellerini sokup yıkamaya yarıyormuş.

     Apparently this bowl and the water in it served to dip your hands in and wash them after the meal.

Declension

References

• “tas”, in Turkish dictionaries, Türk Dil Kurumu

West Makian

Etymology

From Malay tas, from Dutch tas, possibly through Ternate.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t̪as̪/

Noun

tas

1. bag
2. handbag

References

• Clemens Voorhoeve (1982) The Makian languages and their neighbours‎, Pacific linguistics

White Hmong

Alternative forms

• tag

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ta˩/

Etymology 1

From Proto-Hmong-Mien *N-dam(X) (“half (of day)”).

Noun

tas

1. (in compounds) segments (of days)

Derived terms

Etymology 2

Particle

tas

1. particle used to indicate completion of an action: done, finished, completed

   Noj tas lawm. ― Finished eating.

2. an unrestricted post-verbal intensifier commonly duplicated when used

   zoo tas tas ― very very good

Verb

tas

1. to finish

Derived terms

Usage notes

In practice, the variant pronunciation tag is more commonly used in both speech and writing.

References

• Heimbach, Ernest E. (1979) White Hmong — English Dictionary‎, SEAP Publications, →ISBN, pages 304-5.